Second week of teaching practice

So after a difficult yet fulfilling start to the week, I was back in a proper school teaching a reasonable sized class, but they were also incredibly basic, we had started the lesson by asking them what their names were and how old they were. This was difficult, they knew how to ask what peoples’ names were but not how to say how old they were. So for the next 3 hours we taught them numbers and months, and how to say when their birthday was. I found it personally rewarding when I taught them that when you say which month your born in its ‘in’ and not ‘on’, and when you talk about the actual date you were born on its ‘on’ and not ‘in’. It was at this point that I realised that I would truly enjoy this experience, and that I didn’t want to be placed in a school with very advanced kids, because I wanted to know that the English they spoke when I eventually leave is the English that I have taught them.

     During this week I also experienced my first class of primary school kids, when I was told that I was going to teach primary, I was not looking forward to it. Now I like kids, not in a daily mail way though, but that’s when there’s only 1 or 2 of them, not 20 odd, but when it came to teaching them it was not as bad as I expected. The first good thing was that they were the oldest primary school kids, so about 10-11, which I can handle, and the fact they were more advanced than the secondary school kids helped as well. So the second and final week of teaching practice was over, there were mixed thoughts of how it went but overall everyone felt that the actual teaching was a good experience, the being late for most days was annoying but mai pen rai.